C.O.B.R.A., it would help us for you to have stated with some reasonable degree of clarity just what you are referring to here, but you have not done much of a job of that with the stumbling, sprawling, run-on, confusing manner in which you have referenced the twaddle you have put up in earlier posts. It would have been far better for you to have simply re-stated the original questions or, better yet, you could have left those questions where they belonged, in the posts in which they originated. The likely reason you did not do the latter is because your overconfident ego drove you to start a new post with the "gotcha" language you used in the heading in order to attract attention to yourself and to coax out a larger audience for your heretical LDS doctrines.
Another thing, C.O.B.R.A., for someone who has been so reluctant to answer the questions of others, it ill behooves you to chide someone else for not responding to your questions on your schedule. I know not what obligations you have, but I am currently caring for an injured relative and at the same time doing some work for my employer that is rather mentally demanding. It takes me little time to respond to the puerile stuff you put up on this forum, but answering you is not my highest priority. I would also point out that over the weekend, I went to some trouble to provide my response to you on the issue of "temple marriage" and "celestial marriage" and there is a detailed post of mine on that topic awaiting your response. I am not ragging you to answer that. You may take whatever time you really need, but I will be interested in your response, since I have pointed out that your earlier discussion actually conflicts with what your own church and your own alleged "Prophet" teaches on that subject.
I will do for you what you did not do for Bill or me in your challenge to us; I will correctly cite the post to which I am referring. It is entitled, "Not from God, C.O.B.R.A.!” and my last entry, awaiting your response, was posted at 9;35 AM, September 27.
Here is your arrogantly posed challenge, C.O.B.R.A. and here are my replies, which might or might not satisfy you. I have done the best I can to try to interpret your sloppily-framed challenge, and if I missed the point somewhere, blame it on your own paltry communication skills.
[QUOTE]People in here have asked you two questions that you have no answers for. Question in the area of COBRA answer me a question, and. Christian coat and. God has a body of flesh and bones, there are more, please bless us with your Almighty HUMAN UNDERSTANDING.[QUOTE]
You refer first to "Question in the area of COBRA answer me a question." After cruising through the Religion Forum topics, I find this heading--"Will C.O.B.R.A. (Dwight) Answer One Question?--which is something like what you listed and I will assume it is what you are referring to, but for Pity's sake, C.O.B.R.A., in the future, when you reference a specific topic, just take the small amount of time it requires to quote the topic correctly. That should not be too much of a burden.
Here is what you posted under that topic, C.O.B.R.A.:
[QUOTE]Let me give you another perspective on that verse for you to think about. The word die does indeed refer to the seperation[sic] of the spirit from the body but I look at the word DEAD as regering to those that are dead to the things of God. The spirituality [sic] dead. They indeed know nothing as to the things Of God. Like a person that thinks they know everything about all religions but refuse to pray and invite the Holy Ghost to teach them the things of God, you know, Spiritually dead. They really KNOW NOTHING.[QUOTE]
Frankly, C.O.B.R.A., your digression to "how [you] look at the word dead" is just a transparent device you are using to seque into your old assertion that anyone who needs to get informed about anything spiritual must state the particulars of his case to God and get himself directly informed by a visitation of the Holy Ghost. We have been around that old horn several times already, C.O.B.R.A., and you just won't let it go, since it is such a convenient way to avoid discussing the substance of matters on which we disagree. I'm done with you on that one, since it leads nowhere but back into the dim corners of your dogmatic mindset. Stop trying to re-invent a wheel that doesn't roll.
One of the other matters that you feel neglected on is this matter of the alleged fleshly body of God. You posted the following:
[QUOTE]Acts 1:11 it is said that as Jesus went up to heaven He will return in like manner, The way I read the Bible, Jesus assended [sic] into heaven as a being of flesh and bone and He will return with that same body when He comes again. How else are the Jews going to feel His wounds and confess He is God? If He isnt[sic] in heaven with his body that He assended[sic]with, did He drop it off somewhere else.[sic] If so why go through all the trouble to show the apostles that He had a body of flesh and bones?[QUOTE]
Ye do err, C.O.B.R.A., in assuming that "in like manner" refers to the Jesus returning with a fleshly body. The "manner" in which he ascended is the "how" of how he ascended. The "manner" of his ascension is described in Acts 1:9: "And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight."
He ascended in a cloud, C.O.B.R.A. And how will he return? I have the answer to that question for you. I got it from the Holy Ghost, but don't let that get you too excited. I did not get it like you claim to get it--by some kind of direct, customized, personal deposit of Holy Ghost information put together in answer to a prayer for same. I got it from the word of God, which is a product of inspiration by the Holy Ghost. I found it in I Thessalonians 4: 16 &17, and in Revelation 1:7 both of which which make it plain that when Jesus returns, he will be coming "in the clouds" and "with clouds." That was the "manner" of his ascension, C.O.B.R.A., and that will be the "manner" of his return. And "every eye shall see him," C.O.B.R.A.
I do not buy your argument that Jews or anyone else will need to touch a fleshly body in order to be convinced of who he is when he returns. When he comes, C.O.B.R.A.,"with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God" (I Thess. 4:16), there will not be doubters lining up to feel the nail prints in his hands or the wound in his side. That shout, that trump, and that triumphant return in the clouds will be enough to convince saint and sinner alike that the Son of God has returned to claim his own!